A New Leash on Life

We rated this book:

$4.99

In this book, there is a dog, Smokey, that gets adopted by a girl. The girl takes him on walks, and plays ball with him, and feeds him all sorts of yummy food and takes him everywhere and has a lot of fun with him. But she grows up and gets married and then she has a baby.

When she brings the baby home, she doesn’t have any time for Smokey anymore, because all her time is taken up with the baby. Then when the baby grows into a toddler, the toddler keeps poking at the dog and pulling its tail and bothering it. One day when Smokey was very upset he nipped the toddler, and the mother was very angry and worried so Smokey got sent outside. So then Smokey decided he needed to teach the toddler. So Smokey taught the toddler how to behave with him and how to treat him, like to stay away from him when he was eating, and leave his toys alone, and not pull his tail. So now Smokey and the child are good friends, and the child takes him for walks and gives him treats. But now there is a new baby coming along!

This book is written as a rhyme, so that it will be interesting to really young children, but it is a good book for people of any age to read. It is to help people know what to do when they are having a baby and they already have a dog. It teaches good things to do and wants people who have dogs to keep trying and to know the right things to do so their dogs and their babies will get along and all be happy together as a family. The Humane Society contributed a Q & A section to help families learn how to work with their pets and their children, because they don’t want you to have to give up your family pet just because there is a new baby in the house. If you know how to teach children to act around the dogs, there won’t be any problems.

The pictures in this book are really cute and funny, and Smokey is such a cute little dog – and he is really smart, too, because he teaches the child the right way to act. I like this book because they figure out a way to resolve the problem and decide to work together and be friends. This would be a great book for anyone who is bringing a new baby home to a pet, or who wants to know how to help dogs and young children get along.

Chloe and her friend Leo were going to dress up like monsters from their favorite books. But Emma wanted to be fairies, and for Chloe to be a fairy. Now Chloe is thinking about something she wants – she wants to be a monster but her friend wants her to be a fairy. She made a monster coat, but she made fairy wings. The dog took her book, because Leo wanted to be a monster not a fairy, and Emma wouldn’t be a monster. So she turned out to be a monster and a fairy, she wanted to be a ballerina first, and a monster and a fairy, so now her friends were happy. I love the first picture; love it, love it, love it. The baby and the dog are so funny, and Chloe is upside down. I like Leo the best; he is nice. The baby is going to be a monster too. I like the picture of the mom and a bucket on the baby’s head and the dad was playing with the baby. But I would dress up like a fairy.

Biscuit’s Christmas colletion is made up of many Christmas and winter stories about Biscuit, the puppy, and his friends. Biscuit and friends have adventures eating cookies, drinking hot chocolate, and decorating the Christmas tree. They play in the snow, go to school, give gifts, and make new friends. I like this book because it is great for all ages. My little brother loves it (he is two), I liked it, and my mom liked reading it. It was different than other Biscuit stories because it had lots of stories in one book, and it was about Christmas. But it was still the same Biscuit, the one who “woofs” at everything. It is an easy read and fun to look at all the colorful pictures.

This book is the creation story from the Bible. I have read many other stories like this one. I really like the pictures in the book. In all of the pictures there is a light or spot where you can see God. The pictures all went with the words, so if you know the creation story but can’t read, you can still tell the story. My favorite picture was of the lion and mice. The words said, “cats and mice.” On each day God created a part of the world. The first day was light, then they sky. Next was the water and land, sun and moon, and birds and fish. Then animals and people. God wants the people to take care of the land and animals and everything he created. I think this is a good story, that many kids would like. I think kids would enjoy looking at the pictures too.

Paul is a fish and he swims in circles. Then one day, Bernadette drops in. Bernadette says, “Can’t you realize there’s a whole world out there?” So she shows him the world. Paul asks Bernadette what a banana is on a plate, and she says it is a boat. Paul sees some milk and other bottles, and Bernadette says that it’s a city. Paul asks, “What’s its name?” and she says, “Milkwaukee.” But before that he sees some flowers, and Bernadette says it’s a forest, don’t you know? Paul sees a clock, and Bernadette says it’s a cactus, and after that, Bernadette sees a teapot and says it’s an elephant that is not dangerous, but you should not disturb her when she is feeding her babies, which is the teacups! The last thing they see is a spoon, which Bernadette says is a fish! Now Paul doesn’t go around in circles; he goes around Bernadette! He liked what Bernadette showed him. On the back is a portrait of them on the boat, fishing, with the city in the back. I like this book a lot. It is really funny, especially on the back. I like how Bernadette says everything is different from what it is, and they are just really goldfish.

When I read the title I knew that this book would be about parrots in Puerto Rico. The book tells about how their number was getting smaller and smaller. I learned things like “In the 1950s, birds called pearly-eyed thrashers moved into the rainforest and tried to steal the parrots’ nesting holes.” The characters in this book are the parrots and the scientists who try to help and save them. Some of the parrots do get saved! Looking at some of the illustrations made me feel sorry for the parrots. The pictures are very bright and beautiful. The pictures are made like collages of different colored paper and fabric so I like looking at them. My favorite part of this book is when the scientists figured out how to save the parrots. “People had nearly caused the parrots to become extinct. Now people started to help the parrots stay alive.” I think that big kids would especially like this book Parrots Over Puerto Rico. This book has lots and lots of good and interesting facts about…parrots!